Alessio Cerci

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Alessio Cerci

Date of birth	July 23, 1987 (1987-07-23) (age 20)
Place of birth	Velletri, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current club	Pisa Calcio (on loan from A.S. Roma)
Number	11
Youth clubs
Brescia	AS Roma
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004- 2006-2007 2007-	A.S. Roma → Brescia (loan) → Pisa (loan)	04 0(0) 21 0(0) 26 (10)
National team²
2004-06 2005 2007-	Italy U-19 Italy U-20 Italy U-21	09 0(1) 01 0(0) 03 0(1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 19, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of February 5, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Alessio Cerci (born July 23, 1987 in Velletri, Rome) is an Italian footballer who plays for Pisa Calcio, on loan from A.S. Roma.

[edit] Biography

Cerci was born in Velletri, but lived in Valmontone, in the Rome neighbourhood.

He was a regular for the A.S. Roma youth team that won the Campionato Primavera 2004-05. In this period he was nicknamed "Henry from Valmontone"^[1] due to his playing style.

On May 16, 2004, the last match of the Serie A 2003-04, he made his official debut for Roma, at the age of 17. He replaced Daniele Corvia at the 77th minute of the game, and in only 15 minutes he came close to the goal after having dribbled Sampdoria's defender Giulio Falcone.^{[citation needed]}

In the following two seasons he played only few minutes collecting other 4 appearances, thus he was loaned to Serie B team Brescia Calcio for the season 2006-07 having a low efficiency.

The following year he was loaned to Pisa Calcio, and quickly became a regular of the team coached by Giampiero Ventura. He scored his first official goal in professional football on September 9, 2007 against Cesena, while only two months later, on November 9, after having scored 8 goals in 14 matches and helped the Tuscan team to reach the top of the table, he was called up for the Italy national under-21 football team by Pierluigi Casiraghi^[2] and scored his first goal for Italy in his debut during the 2009 European Championship qualifying match against Azerbaijan on 16 November 2007.